Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 48
d it should. He pickedit up and dropped it again and again, but some-how his clumsiness always foiled him of his pur-pose, whatever that purpose was. At last hesucceeded; and now that the bone was in the water he sucked on the projecting end of it withall his might. The result of this was that… … frS^rediin BRUIN AND THE MARROW-BONE. desired? This was the question we all askedourselves. But no one could answer it. For aught we knew, it might have been anold trick of his, learned years ago as a resultof one of those lucky accidents which the his-tory of invention tells us sometimes fall to…
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